Comments on: On View Now | Mind the Gap: Thoughts on Representing the Holocaust through Comicshttp://blog.art21.org/2010/07/01/on-view-now-mind-the-gap-thoughts-on-representing-the-holocaust-through-comics/
An online space for insightful writing on contemporary art and artistsTue, 27 Jan 2015 13:15:56 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Ira Landesshttp://blog.art21.org/2010/07/01/on-view-now-mind-the-gap-thoughts-on-representing-the-holocaust-through-comics/comment-page-1/#comment-22804
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:41:53 +0000http://blog.art21.org/?p=23085#comment-22804Hi Max-
Hoping to get email reminders as to when your columnns will be appearing.

Best,
Ira

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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:54:57 +0000http://blog.art21.org/?p=23085#comment-22508Hi Ira,
Great to hear from you. Thank you for your comments on the essence of representation, and I’m glad you enjoyed the post.
Best,
Max
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:25:17 +0000http://blog.art21.org/?p=23085#comment-22505Hi Freddy,
Thank you very much for sharing the story about your aunt and uncle, and I apologize for not responding sooner. Their story stands as a testament to the horrors they and so many experienced, as well as to the complexities of trying to somehow belatedly represent that experience in and through art. I think that both your words and Spiegelman’s work attest to the enduring need to repeat and retell the stories of that generation and their history, and to do so in a way that acknowledges both the challenge and the responsibility facing subsequent generations to somehow faithfully bear witness to that past and its legacies. Thanks again.
Best,
Max
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Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:47:53 +0000http://blog.art21.org/?p=23085#comment-22303Your thoughts are greatly appreciated, Max. The differentiation you delineate in regard to this particular art form gets to the essence of what art, in a universal sense, is all about.
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Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:21:24 +0000http://blog.art21.org/?p=23085#comment-21458I do not think that any comic, movie or even a novel can describe the horrors of the Holocaust. The only posasible result may be that the viewers or readers may be sensitized to the horror to strive for tolerance in their lives. To me, the Holocaust is a human act which is still incomprehensible. The depth of their own degradation as humans of perpetrators and bystanders to me is still beyond comprehension. How come that these people had their conscience so debased, For example, my late aunt and uncle long before their deportation were dehunanized with the assent of their neighbors as bystanders . They as adults were restricted to a curfew. They had to wear a yellow star of David to isolate them . They could not travel . They could not buy groceries except twice a week only for an hour at designated stores. They had to seek written permission from the Gestapo to visit a jewish doctor or to fill thereafter any prescription such as for a new pair of eyeglasses as documented in the archives of Taunusstein in the case of my late aunt. They were forbidden to set a tombstone on the grave of my late grandmother who died on June 1, 1938. An infinite number of edicts, laws restricted the lives of German Jews. Germans as neighbors stood by and did not protest. Instead, most assented with alacrity to the dehumanization . An estimatd 500,000 Germans participated actively in those steps that led to the Holocaust. The sole goal was to dehumanizze German Jews, step by step , until the final act of deporting them under the deception that they were to be resettled to the East, They were not told of their destination. Instead they were processed, as in the case of my relatives, over a week end in Frankfurt with 1,000 others, in a systematic deprivation of their belongings with the final act of having them turn over theur house key . to the Nazis. They had also to turn over all their finances to the Nazis allegedly topay for their transportation to their resettlement and to assure for their upkeep at the resettlement location, They were then sent to the extermination camp of Sobibor based on the criteria that they were over 50 years old . They arrived there three days later likely to be gassed shortly after their arrival. How does one explain the depravationo f those from bystanders to those Ukrainaian collaborators at the concentration camp, one of whom is on trial now in Germany. How can any person understand the evil a human being inflicted on another? How can one undersyand that some of the reported acts of Ukrainian guards seizing little girls , dragging them into their barracks to forciblly defile them and then get them gassed! How does explain the mass murder of jewish children incuding infants in the Ukraine in August 1941 when Germans themselves recoiled and had their Ukrainian auxiliaries do the killing. ? Neither film nor novel , in my view, can ever communicate such atrocities, such affront to the conscience of the world!
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Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:13:54 +0000http://blog.art21.org/?p=23085#comment-21457Sweet column, Max! Berl Korot’s video, Dachau, 1974, really brings the piece home, in regards, to the disjointed, incomprehensible experience of dealing with trauma and war.
Great read!
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